Astonishing research finding by biologists at Bielefeld
University published in the online journal Nature Communications
Flowers need water and light to grow. Even children learn
that plants use sunlight to gather energy from earth and water. Members of
Professor Dr. Olaf Kruse’s biological research team at Bielefeld University
have made a groundbreaking discovery that one plant has another way of doing
this. They have confirmed for the first time that a plant, the green alga
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, not only engages in photosynthesis, but also has an
alternative source of energy: it can draw it from other plants. This finding
could also have a major impact on the future of bioenergy. The research
findings have been released on Tuesday 20 November in the online journal Nature
Communications published by the renowned journal Nature.